Maritime Museum to host sleepovers

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is offering two nautical opportunities for families to spend the night aboard a World War II submarine with family overnight events starting at 7 p.m. July 16 and Aug. 6 and ending the following days at 8 a.m.

The USS Cobia is anchored in the Manitowoc River docked alongside the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. The events are open to individuals, couples and families. Cost is $44 per person.

Participants will race against the clock to be the fastest firing a submarine 40-millimeter deck gun and unscrambling code words along with working as a team to sink enemy vessels with torpedoes and learning how to dive and surface a submarine while reenacting a battle scenario aboard the vintage USS Cobia, the nation’s most fully restored World War II submarine.

Participants will receive an interactive guided tour and overnight accommodation. Admission also includes full access to the museum galleries the following day where individuals may experience Great Lakes maritime history at the largest maritime museum in the Midwest, including its submarine simulator experience.

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum also hosts group overnight programs almost any night of the year for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, school history clubs, YMCA youth groups and church youth groups — any organized groups of adults and children 6 and older with a minimum group size of 10.

Visit www.wisconsinmaritime.org or call 866-724-2356, ext. 106, for more details.